UC Cooperative Extension in Riverside County is bringing together students, agencies, nutrition educators and gardening experts to work alongside families to grow produce in garden plots at a community facility.

Luis Vañó Prize goes to a research team at Spain’s University of Córdoba.

This story, which quotes Josette Lewis of UC Davis, highlights how UC Davis and the UC Global Food Initiative are helping to bridge the gap between the ag industry and tech sector.

Federal assistance program serves roughly 4 million children.

UCSF’s new Healthy Beverage Initiative, which has phased out the sale of sugar-sweetened beverages at UCSF, is setting an example for efforts to improve health throughout UC and beyond.

After failing in 2014, a soda tax will be back on the San Francisco ballot in November, and a morning at the hospital with UCSF Dr. Dean Schillinger demonstrates why he’s such a believer.

Researchers from UC San Diego and the University of Rome La Sapienza are joining forces to find out why residents of a remote Italian village live for so long.

UC ANR advisor Rachel Surls, who recently led a study on urban farmers in California, writes about how urban agriculture can help improve food security.

 

A Q&A with UC Cooperative Extension advisor Rachel Surls about urban agriculture in Los Angeles.

UC helps test CoolBot.

Discovery could be crucial for adapting to climate change.